...ng, so that I could neither take a
jaunt into the country, or a journey by myself; more attendants and more horses must be fed;
coaches must be drawn. Now, if I please, I can go as far as Tarentum on my bob-tailed mule, whose loins the portmanteau galls with his
weight, as does the horseman his shoulders. No one will lay to my charge such sordidness as he
may, Tullius, to you, when...